Friends of Patterson Park
$5,000 / 2002 / Environment
Toward the cost of a crime prevention program in Patterson Park during the summer months in an effort to increase use of the park among the young and old.
Parks & People Foundation
$48,836 / 2002 / Environment
For the development and implementation of a community greening strategy to create and maintain pocket community gardens in the Greenmount/Barclay neighborhoods in collaboration with the People’s Homesteading Project.
Scenic Maryland
$5,000 / 2002 / Environment
In support of the launch of the Scenic Maryland initiative, promoting the adoption in Maryland of “best practices” and strategies used in other states to encourage greater scenic conservation.
Earthome Productions, Inc.
$11,500 / 2001 / Environment
Three grants for expenses related to production, pre-screening and symposia on “The Next Industrial Revolution,” a treatise on sustainable economic, environmental and social responsibility.
Environmental Law Institute
$20,000 / 2001 / Environment
In continued support of the Forests for the Bay Project in an effort to abate forest fragmentation and disappearance of Maryland woodlands. The project advocates the voluntary landowner management of existing forestland, cooperative management of smaller parcels, re-establishment of trees in brownfields, provisions for property tax incentives for retention and stewardship of forests, expansion of programs to secure forest buffers along the waterways, and better monitoring of current forest harvest practices to ensure compliance with regulations.